Taking the scenic route, one day at a time
It seems a long time since our last blog, back in South Australia’s Barossa Valley. And there’s no truth to the rumour that we are still there, slowly sampling our way through each and every winery! In fact, we’ve spent the last three weeks slowly meandering along Australia’s largest river, the mighty Murray. (We’ve also…
Anyone who has been to Kalbarri seems to rave about it. Yet, despite us living in Perth many years ago, neither of us had made the 570 kms trek north to check out what all the fuss was about. That situation was about to be rectified. We were heading to the Kalbarri region for a…
The World Heritage area of Shark Bay had much to entice the Roe’ving grey nomads:- clear blue seas fringed with white sandy beaches, a pristine marine habitat for dugongs, dolphins and migrating whales, one of the world’s rare clusters of stromatolites, and the Australian mainland’s western most point. We decided to base ourselves in Denham,…
Our final weeks in the Pilbara saw us slowly winding our way south-west from Port Hedland through the Karratha and Dampier region and then ending at Onslow. Karratha Karratha, with a population of almost 17,000, is the main centre servicing the Pilbara region. With the best range of shops we’d seen in a while, we…
As detailed in a separate post, we drove for about four hours down the Great Northern Highway from Port Hedland to visit the Karijini National Park. This 300kms section of highway is particularly busy with long road trains that thunder under the weight of their heavy loads, especially iron ore and heavy machinery transported between…